Media Coverage

Welcome to Hallmark Health's Media Coverage section. This section is designed to assist patients and journalists seeking information about our current news and to introduce our healthcare experts. We are also available to assist you by providing information about Hallmark Health and its members, including Lawrence Memorial of Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospitals.

To arrange an interview or photo shoot, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , Communications Specialist for public and media relations, at 781-979-3243. We also maintain a 24-hour media on-call system. If you are on deadline after normal business hours, call the Hallmark Health operator at 781-979-3000 and ask them to page the marketing/communications team member on-call.



For many, nursing is a mid-career choice PDF Print
Media Coverage
Sunday, 04 May 2008 00:00

Boston Globe

By Taryn Plumb

May 4, 2008

We've all heard the old nursery rhyme about the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker.

Well, before becoming a nurse, Melissa Mattola-Kiatos was a third of the way through that lineup - as well as a few others.

In addition to her post as a junior butcher at Elm Street Market in her hometown of Everett, she once supervised a four-star restaurant at Faneuil Hall; performed hand rubs as a salesgirl at Donna Karan; and managed mutual funds for two investment companies.

Finally, four years ago, the Saugus 33-year-old decided to give nursing a go.

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Hallmark Health celebrates 10 years PDF Print
Media Coverage
Thursday, 06 March 2008 00:00

Medford Transcript

By Nell Escobar Coakley

March 6, 2008

Michael Sack is not only the CEO and president of Hallmark Health, he's also a client.

"I certainly had the choice to go a number of different places," said Sack of an accident on Christmas Day, which sent him to the emergency room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a broken shoulder. "My wife kept telling me to call ahead, but I just went."

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Cardiac help now a heartbeat away PDF Print
Media Coverage
Thursday, 20 December 2007 00:00

New center provides emergency heart care close to home

Melrose Free Press
By Daniel DeMaina
December 20th, 2007

“Time is muscle.”

So said Elaine Gale, Hallmark Health’s system director of cardiac and endovascular service, during a recent tour of the new Cardiac and Endovascular Center at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.

“The more time you waste, the more you damage your heart,” Gale said.

Thus the purpose of the new center — to get heart attack victims north of Boston on the table more quickly and to allow collaboration between experts in the cardiology, endovascular and radiology departments.

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Hallmark Health appoints nursing director PDF Print
Media Coverage
Thursday, 22 November 2007 00:00

Melrose Free Press
November 22, 2007

Hallmark Health has appointed Mark F. Mahnfeldt as the nursing director of Emergency Services at Melrose- Wakefield Hospital (MWH). Mahnfeldt has served as the interim director at MWH since July, and previously served in the critical care system-wide float team and as per diem supervisor.

Before joining Hallmark Health, Mahnfeldt worked at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA first as a registered nurse in the emergency department and then as clinical leader of the cardio-thoracic intensive care unit. Prior to this, he served as an RN in the emergency department of Boston Medical Center and then as an RN in the intensive care unit at New England Baptist Hospital, both in Boston, MA.

Mahnfeldt received his bachelors of science degree in Nursing from Northeastern University College of Nursing in Boston in 1996. He then completed both a legal nurse consulting program and paralegal certificate program at Northeastern in 1999. He is currently pursuing his MSN/MBA from Salem State College. For more information, visit www.hallmarkhealth.org.

 
Melrose: New Cardiac Center PDF Print
Media Coverage
Sunday, 18 November 2007 00:00

Boston Globe
November 18, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/18/random_drug_testing/

Hallmark Health System has opened a Cardiac & Endovascular Center at its Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, which will offer patients diagnosis and treatment of heart and vascular disease. Among the procedures and services provided is angioplasty, a minimally invasive procedure to open blocked arteries. Melrose- Wakefield is one of seven hospitals in Massachusetts that was selected to participate in a state study of the benefits of elective angioplasties. Other procedures that will be performed at the new center include cardiac catheterization, coronary artery stenting, noninvasive cardiac testing, blood clot treatment, and vascular surgery. - Kay Lazar

 
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